Goodbye to Fibrocystic Disease

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Abstract
IT is time to empty the "fibrocystic disease" waste-basket and thereby mitigate the anxiety of a large number of women who no longer need to be concerned about a high risk for breast cancer. Love et al. have asked, "Is it reasonable to define as a disease any process that occurs clinically in 50 per cent and histologically in 90 per cent of women?"1 During the past year there were about 115,000 new cases of breast cancer and 37,000 deaths from the disease in the United States, where it occurs in 1 of every 11 women, and each of the . . .